Parents can exposetheir children to theoriginal edition if theyfeel their kids aremature enough, or theycan read the revised edition now.

Paul Faamuli
Anchorage, AK

[It was a] different timewhen he wrote [it]. Thelanguage should be sani-tized to reflect our societyand our values in ourcommunity and our country today.

Agnes Carriere
La Crescenta, CA

I didn’t like what I saw
and see. I watched To Kill
a Mockingbird and didn’t
like what I was seeing,
and I’m from that time.

Should literary
classics be sanitized?

NO

from members:MARK TWAIN’S The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has long been consid-ered one of America’s literary masterpieces. But a recent edition has beenedited to remove racially charged words.Supporters of the revised edition say that many Americans ;nd thesewords so offensive that the original version of the book has been bannedin some schools and libraries. They say a revised edition maintains themood, context and style of the original; allows everyone to enjoy the work;

George Ruopp
Wilmette, IL

Everyone should be
able to read what
history is all about.
You don’t hear the

British saying that
they are going to change
Shakespeare’s work.

Claudette Rhodes
Cedar Hill, TX

[It] should be kept inits original context forpurposes of studentsasking hard questionsand as a yardstick tosee how we have or havenot evolved.